Anti-death penalty advocate Hayat has launched a clemency petition for 33-year-old Thanakorn Sinsanoi who has become paralysed while serving time at Pokok Sena prison, Kedah, for a drug trafficking conviction.

In its clemency petition, Hayat said the prison facilities are unable to provide the “round-the-clock care” required by the transwoman inmate, who became paralysed from the neck down after two tuberculosis infections behind bars.

Hayat said that as recently as June, the Thai citizen was found “in a soiled bed, with fresh wounds that were left unattended, as well as flies surrounding her in the prison treatment room”...